Places bertshetler Wants to Go

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

This palace offers an 18th-century European take on Chinese design and architecture.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

One of the largest tuna factories in the Mediterranean now serves as a museum honoring Sicily's history of bluefin tuna hunting.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

These two remaining restored marble fountains were part of a set of four which graced the corners of an important crossroads in Messina until the earthquake of 1908

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

Gorgeous views of Italian mountains and valleys form the backdrop of this unique open-air theater.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

One of Hawaiʻi’s most notable historic petroglyph fields lies within a major resort.

One of Hawaiʻi’s largest petroglyph fields contains a number of depictions of people.

The remains of a royal fish pond are now a brackish-water wildlife sanctuary

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

This former outpost was designed to protect the lucrative fur trade of the 18th century.

The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.

A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.